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Hi,

Are you write with your left hand or right hand?  Do you have a dominant brain side?  Voting is for MTF.  All comments are welcome.

If you have some special talents such as playing an instrument, writing novels, or any other activities please share if you think this might have a correlation to dominant brain side.

You no longer can change your vote but I added ambidextrous.

W

hey what IF I could write with my toes too  :P ???? hehehehehe

Special skills, eemmmmm. I like working with my hands. but nothing special there. Sorry.

I'm ambidextrous, but right hand dominant, so I chose that.

Quote from: Wendy on April 23, 2007, 11:55:27 AM
Only genetic males can vote on this survey. 

Ok, I had to stop and think about this, since I've never been geneticly tested.

I'm left handed, thus right brain/intuitive is my dominant side. I learned to play various musical instruments the "right handed" way though, except for percussion, which I do left handed, and didn't realize until after I'd been playing it about six months.

zythyra

<<<<<<<<<Is ambidextrous. Was made to use the right hand in grade school, but that has made telling which hand is dominant hard to do as I'll switch hands during activities and not notice the fact that I have done so. So I'm not going to vote just comment. I seem to think more along the lines of the intuitive/emotional  side of the brain.
Rashelle

Im primarily left handed though semi ambedextrious....  I can play multiple insturments includeing flute, piano and Drums...  I tried to learn the drums left handed, but my first band would allways rearange my kit while I was running errands and I finaly gave in and learned to play right.......  *Shrugs*  dosnt really matter though... its one of those that you can rearange however you please LoL

Quote from: Tink on April 23, 2007, 07:33:01 PM
...Thank you for reminding me that I have XY chromosomes.

Tink you are a beautiful person.
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I am somewhat ambidextrous.  I played the trumpet with my right hand because that was the way my instrument was designed. 

I have a way to tell your dominat brain side.  Drive a spade into the ground.   You will naturally dig will your "less" dominant foot and you will maintain your balance with your dominant foot.  If you are right handed you will naturally want to drive a spade into the ground with your left foot.  I am right brain dominant and use my left foot for balance and drive the spade into the ground with my right foot.

I pick up my fork with my left hand and prefer to write with my left hand.  I am extremely visual and see things in my head.  I can also smell a spice and know how it tastes in a meal and I can gauge how much to add without a measuring device. 

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The results of the survey are very interesting at this point (6L/7R).

W
 

Quote from: Wendy on April 24, 2007, 10:54:29 AM
I have a way to tell your dominat brain side.  Drive a spade into the ground.   You will naturally dig will your "less" dominant foot and you will maintain your balance with your dominant foot.  If you are right handed you will naturally want to drive a spade into the ground with your left foot.  I am right brain dominant and use my left foot for balance and drive the spade into the ground with my right foot.

Wait a second here.  Now I'm confused.  I use my right foot to push the shovel in, but I also write with my right hand primarily.  That doesn't add up.

Quote from: Wendy on April 24, 2007, 10:54:29 AM

I have a way to tell your dominat brain side.  Drive a spade into the ground.   You will naturally dig will your "less" dominant foot and you will maintain your balance with your dominant foot.  If you are right handed you will naturally want to drive a spade into the ground with your left foot.  I am right brain dominant and use my left foot for balance and drive the spade into the ground with my right foot.
 

I am right handed and drive the spade with my right foot... always.  What does that make me?

I play cello and guitar.  I also build fine quality instruments.

Genetic XY? I have been reminded of that all to frequently lately!

Cindi

Quote from: Zombies on April 24, 2007, 11:26:35 AM
I thought that the whole dominant-brain thing was a myth, wasn't it?

I mean, let's take music, for example. If you're listening to it casually, I suppose it would activate the right brain. But what if you are a musician and are analyzing it to find out its components and parts? Then you'd be activating your left brain. Traditionally we might consider a musician to be "right-brained", though many use their left brain very frequently in their musical activities.

You are correct in that people tend to use both sides no matter what, but a certain side *usually* is stronger and the type of activities they enjoy usually reflect this.  Right brained tends more towards just feelings and creativity, whereas left brained tends more towards thinking and logic.  Doing math problems or working on something like a sudoku puzzle tend to be purely logical, where as painting an abstract painting or just dancing to some soft music tend to be more right brained activities.  Anything in between the 2 extremes is where most other activities fall.  Personally, I enjoy activities in both categories quite equally, but I tend slightly more towards left-brained activities.  I don't enjoy only being at one extreme or the other.  For instance, in my job I create web programs including graphics and coding.  This allows me to use both sides.

Quote from: Melissa on April 24, 2007, 11:14:24 AM
Wait a second here.  Now I'm confused.  I use my right foot to push the shovel in, but I also write with my right hand primarily.  That doesn't add up.

Melissa,  I would have guessed you to be right brain dominant and very technical.  You are extremely precise.

If I turn a garden I will grab the top of the shovel/ spade handle with left hand and the bottom of the shovel/ spade handle with my right hand.  I will then balance my weight on my left foot while placing my right foot on the top of the spade.  I then transfer my weight down on my right foot to drive the spade into the ground.  My left arm pushes down on the spade handle while my right arm lifts the spade handle with the soil out of the ground.  I can reverse the hands and feet if I get tired but that position is uncomfortable.  Go turn 100 square feet of garden and you will know your dominant leg.
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I "prefer" to throw a ball with my left hand and catch with my right.  (However I can throw a ball a little further with my right hand.  One is 10 feet and the othr is twelve feet.  ;))

If I defend myself I will turn my left shoulder to an adversary not my right shoulder.
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Here's a bit of trivia:
99% of the general population uses their right eye as the "sighting" eye and the left eye as the depth perception eye.  My right eye is my sighting eye even though I am left handed.  This is the reason why the army is successful in training all its soldiers to sight a rifle using the right eye.  The army wants all its soldiers to have a rifle on their right side in a trench. 

W

Quote from: Wendy on April 24, 2007, 11:55:21 AM
Go turn 100 square feet of garden and you will know your dominant leg.

I was actually just helping Rashelle fill in some holes this last weekend, which required a lot of digging, so I am sure I used my right foot.

I own a ranch... I'm very certain I use my right foot.  ;)

Cindi

Quote from: Melissa on April 24, 2007, 12:00:23 PM
I was actually just helping Rashelle fill in some holes this last weekend, which required a lot of digging, so I am sure I used my right foot.

Quote from: Cindi Jones on April 24, 2007, 12:04:29 PM
I own a ranch... I'm very certain I use my right foot.  ;)

I knew I would mess up my survey if I talked.  I added ambidextrous.

I write with my left hand and sink the spade with my right foot and would call myself right brain dominant.

Since you added a new option, I modified the poll to allows changes of votes and I moved my over to ambidextrous.  If you would like this changed back so people can't change their vote, then go ahead or I can change it back if you would like.

 

Quote from: Melissa on April 24, 2007, 11:39:20 AM
Doing math problems or working on something like a sudoku puzzle tend to be purely logical, where as painting an abstract painting or just dancing to some soft music tend to be more right brained activities. 

I am good at solving math problems (left brain) and not a good dancer at all (right brain).  Good point Melissa.

W

I'm ambidextrous, I can do equally with both hands, when I was younger the baseball coaches would try to pick me, I could switch hit, play 1st base with a left glove or 3rd with a right. Now I can apply make-up with both hands simultaneously if needed LOL :)

Quote from: Wendy on April 24, 2007, 11:55:21 AM
Here's a bit of trivia:
99% of the general population uses their right eye as the "sighting" eye and the left eye as the depth perception eye.  My right eye is my sighting eye even though I am left handed.  This is the reason why the army is successful in training all its soldiers to sight a rifle using the right eye.  The army wants all its soldiers to have a rifle on their right side in a trench. 

I don't really see why it would be that important to have everyone have their rifle on the same side, at least nowadays. However, most rifles themselves are designed for right-handed shooters -- it's pretty difficult to load some of them with your left hand.

I'm right-handed and left-eyed, and back when I tried my hand at that flavour of masculinity it was pretty easy to score about as well with my left as with my right hand while shooting a pistol. With a rifle, no way. I'm still almost completely ambidextrous with an epee, and that used to be fun during my more active fencing days. Mostly in practice, of course, as it's a bit too much of a bother to change the wiring between bouts.

  Nfr

QuoteI play cello and guitar.  I also build fine quality instruments.

Cindi, what instruments do you build? I'd like to know more about them. I play guitar, mandolin and fiddle (and also a few others)

zythyra

Well we got some interesting results.

In the general population about 15% of males write with their left hand and only 5% of females write with their left hand.

I was wondering if MTF would change that number.

After 18 voters about 33% were left handed and 50% were right handed.  About 17% can write equally well with either hand or are ambidextrous.  The sample is small but the results remain skewed.